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| Should Paid Sick Days Be Mandatory? |
| 2008-08-29 05:16:17 |
By Theresa TamkinsTake my quiz! You’re out at a restaurant, and you get to choose:A. Being served by a waitress who’s feeling great.B. Being served by a waitress who was up all night with diarrhea but came to work anyway because she can’t afford to take unpaid sick leave.If you’re like most people, choice A is a no-brainer. Sick people at work tend to spread illness to other people—maybe even to you.But 46 million people in the United States don’t get paid sick days, which is about 46% of the private-industry labor force, according to the Associated Press. Those workers are most likely to be at small businesses, working at the low end of the pay scale. Read More...
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| Massachusetts Makes Strides in Expanding Health-Insurance Coverage |
| 2008-08-27 09:09:21 |
By Dena Rifkin, MDI have to give a gold star to my home state this week. Massachusetts just announced an impressive increase in the number of residents with health insurance. Since the June 2006 launch of a program aimed to extend health-care coverage to every resident, more than 400,000 people have joined the ranks of the insured. You can read about the ongoing health-care reform efforts at the official state site or in the Wall Street Journal’s health blog. There is continuing debate about how the financial side of this will work out, and it’s clear that everyone is watching Massachusetts to see how this experiment goes. One fact stood out to me in the reports though: The Boston Globe says that visits by the uninsured to community health centers and hospitals dropped by 37% from July...
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| Health Tip: Feeling Thirsty? |
| 2008-08-26 00:34:41 |
(HealthDay News) -- An occasional glass of water should satisfy most cases of thirst. But if it seems like you're excessively thirsty all the time, it may be a sign of a serious health problem.Here are common causes of excessive thirst, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine:Significant blood loss or loss of body fluids, caused by an underlying health condition. Diabetes or diabetes insipidus. A side effect of certain drugs, including anticholinergics, demeclocycline, diuretics or phenothiazines. Significant loss of water or salt, possibly caused by not drinking enough water, profuse sweating, diarrhea or vomiting. ...
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| Cheerleading Causes Majority of Female Athlete Injuries |
| 2008-08-26 00:24:49 |
(HealthDay News) -- Over the past 25 years, cheerleading accounted for two-thirds of all catastrophic sports injuries experienced by high school and college females in the United States, a much higher proportion than previously thought, a new report says.Cheerleading accounted for 65.1 percent of female high school athlete injuries and for 66.7 percent of female college athlete injuries.It was previously believed that cheerleading accounted for 55 percent of injuries among high school females and 59.4 percent of injuries among college females. But the percentages increased when new data was used for this year's report from the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Center director Frederick O. Mueller, a professor o...
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| How Do You Get Your Kids to Eat Their Veggies? |
| 2008-08-25 11:52:02 |
By Sean KelleyDespite our son’s rather challenging food allergies, my wife and I have had it easy as parents. In the four-plus years since our daughter’s birth, we’ve been to the emergency room just once. There have been no scary choking moments, no broken bones, no serious bouts with the flu.Both our kids sleep through the night and take naps (they’ve even been known to request them). And they eat their veggies—or at least they did until recently. Four-year-old Elise, who would eat peas, corn, green beans, and carrots as a toddler, began putting up resistance around age 3. She now eats only green beans and refuses to try anything new. Read More...
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| HRT After Menopause Reduces Symptoms |
| 2008-08-25 11:52:02 |
(HealthDay News) -- Hormone replacement therapy, even when it's started many years after menopause, can reduce some of the quality-of-life problems caused by menopause, such as sleep problems and hot flashes.Australian researchers report that women who started hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after menopause and took it for an average of one year had significant improvements in sexual functioning, and fewer sleep problems, hot flashes and sweating than did women taking a placebo."The greatest benefits and least risk from HRT are seen in the 99 percent of women who commence HRT for symptom relief near menopause. [This] trial studied much older women who started HRT on average 13 to 14 years after menopause when they had fewer symptoms. Even in this group, improved quality of life was seen ...
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| Lung Association Urges Back-to-School Asthma Checklist |
| 2008-08-25 11:52:02 |
(HealthDay News) -- With the start of school here, the American Lung Association is advising parents of children with asthma to follow a simple checklist to ensure this sometimes debilitating disease doesn't hinder their child's academic year.Almost 11 percent of school-age children have asthma. Annually, these students miss some 13 million days in the classroom because of asthma, making it one of the most common reasons kids are absent from school.The American Lung Association also urges parents who have children with asthma to: Schedule an asthma check-up: Even if your child's condition is well controlled, meeting with your pediatrician is also an opportunity to evaluate medications and physical activity restrictions. Confirm medicines are up-to-date and fill prescriptions: If your child...
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| Refuot is a center for integrated medicine, where experienced and qualified therapists and professionals in various realms of expertise |
| 2008-08-25 00:04:49 |
Refuot is a center for integrated medicine, where experienced and qualified therapists and professionals in various realms of expertise - both conventional and alternative medicine - work side by side in full cooperation.As one of the senior centers for alternative medicine in Israel, with more than 15 years of experience, it is capable of offering patients integrated treatments for various medical problems.We believe in the combination of both ancient and modern knowledge to achieve best results in the treatment of various illnesses and in the same time increasing of the body's natural healing powers.Refuot center runs under the professional supervision of Dr. Yair Maimon, a doctorate in Chinese medicine and one of the most renowned experts in alternative medicine in Israel. Dr. Maimon he...
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| Hospital death rates for key conditions unveiled |
| 2008-08-21 02:19:52 |
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- If you or a loved one develops pneumonia or has a heart attack and is taken to a hospital, do you know what the chances are of getting out alive?Your chances of survival have become a little easier to find, thanks to information included in the government's Hospital Compare Web site.For the first time, death rates during the past two years from pneumonia are included with death rates from heart attack and heart failure for individual hospitals across the country. These numbers can be compared with the national mortality rate for heart attack (16.1 percent), heart failure (11.1 percent) and pneumonia (11.4 percent).In the past, the information specified only whether a hospital was performing at, above or below the national average, without disclosing numbers.But so...
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